I want to stop having to carry around a CD Binder full of boootable discs. To do this I need a reliable solution for booting ISO images on any PC from a USB thumb-drive. I've tried, but found that it's temperamental and only seems to be hit or miss as to whether it will work.

I've seen the Zalman ZM-VE300, HD enclusure, and it seems to be getting good reviews and people are saying it's reliable, however, I'm hoping to only have to use a USB stick that can fit on my key-chain. Any ideas or recommendations? ISOstick.com Boot to the ISO stick and pick any one of the ISO files loaded onto the MicroSD card. Pop a microSD card (not included) in your isostick, stop burning CDs, and start saving time. When you plug in your isostick, two drives will appear: an optical drive and a flash drive. The flash drive gives direct access to the microSD card. Keep all your iso9660 (.iso) images and other files on the flash drive, and you can 'insert' the images into the optical drive any time you want, as if they were real discs.

The computer thinks a real CD/DVD drive is attached--you can even boot from it! Read speed up to 12.5MiB/s depending on the microSD card used. That's 81x in CD speeds, or 9.46x in DVD speeds! Also, because there's no seek time, they're even faster than a real disc would be at those speeds. Stop carrying around CD cases full of utilities and OS installers -- put an isostick on your keychain. Caleb: Based on personal research into this area, if YUMI just absolutely won't boot the ISO files you need it to (or use the extracted files for some things - e.g. CentOS / Fedora must be added through the YUMI utility, as it has to be extracted to the drive rather than use an ISO), then the Zalman enclosure is probably your best bet (and at least it's small enough to fit into a pocket if needed).

Jeanie (WD): It appears that you did not actually read Caleb's question. He's not looking for a disk to host a Windows to Go environment.

He's looking for the abilty to directly boot ISO files at system startup from an external USB device (preferably a thumb-drive). I agree with Rockn; Unetbootin has almost never failed for me. Then again I have only used small capacity flash drives (under 6 Gb). I've used it for all kinds of bootable.iso's (Ubuntu Desktop x86, Ubuntu Server/ Alternate/ LTSP, Win XP, Win 7, Win 8/ CP & Pro, Server 2003, Server 2008, and so on. In those rare moments when the 1st Format/ Mount did not flag the flash as bootable or the image was corrupted, I used GParted to correct the problem. Roxas Blvd Pasay City Zip Codedownload Free Software Programs Online on this page.

Creating bootable media on a Windows machine. Acronis Backup 12.5: how to create a bootable media. Epson Network Software & Driver Package Sx445w here. Create bootmedia; create iso. RMPrepUSB.If you want to boot Acronis True Image from your Hard. Create a ISO file using the Bootable Media Builder and save. Ubuntu is a BIG. Boot Acronis true image and Clonezilla ISO image alone side windows 7, Ubuntu 14.04.1. In order for you to create an Acronis Boot disk.

Both of those programs are available for all the above listed environments. Peter.W wrote: Caleb: Based on personal research into this area, if YUMI just absolutely won't boot the ISO files you need it to (or use the extracted files for some things - e.g. CentOS / Fedora must be added through the YUMI utility, as it has to be extracted to the drive rather than use an ISO), then the Zalman enclosure is probably your best bet (and at least it's small enough to fit into a pocket if needed). Jeanie (WD): It appears that you did not actually read Caleb's question. He's not looking for a disk to host a Windows to Go environment. He's looking for the abilty to directly boot ISO files at system startup from an external USB device (preferably a thumb-drive). They had to drop some type of sales pitch out there or had no clue.

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